R.B.I. Baseball & Tecmo Bowl: Monthly podcast show

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#20
05/31/12, 11:21:20 PM
On a side note, apparently we have 58 subscribers via Itunes.  Slowly moving on up...
Visit:  http://www.tecmobowl-vs-rbi.com/index.html ---strategy, info, and player ratings for Tecmo Bowl & R.B.I. Baseball.

TbT

#21
07/05/12, 09:10:47 PM
Got a weekly TecmoBowl-vs-R.B.I. podcast airing on the 8 Bit X radio network.  Our new format calls for about 30 minute long shows.  Can be heard on saturday July 7th at I believe at 7pm CST right here.  http://www.8bitx.com/
Our episode this weekend breaks down all that is awesome with Tecmo Bowl's Chicago bears.

After that show, we also have a new podcast called "the retro sports game review" thats getting aired.  In our 1st show we take a humorous look at 3 NES wrestling games.  Pro wrestling, tag team wrestling and Tecmo world championship wrestling.  We sat down for a couple hours and played the games, then broke down the good, the bad, and the absurd.  This was some of our best work by the time the show was over.

The retro sports game review airs once a month, and we'll take a stab at 2 or 3 games each show.  Probably doing something like bases loaded, tecmo baseball, and perhaps LJN's MLB(horrible game) next month.  Trying to have a good, mediocre and bad game in each episode. 

To make Tecmo-vs-RBI work weekly we will have to increase our podcast load a little, but I'll rehash some old segments into new shows.  The good thing is that a lot of the material can be recycled and stays current.

Nate is in Omaha this weekend.  Tecmo bowl plyoffs on saturday and a podcast about that will air on 8 bit X on July 14th. 
Visit:  http://www.tecmobowl-vs-rbi.com/index.html ---strategy, info, and player ratings for Tecmo Bowl & R.B.I. Baseball.

TbT

#22
07/05/12, 09:14:33 PM
Also taking suggestions on any discussions/segments you may want to hear.  Going weekly now will require us to get us more  creative in our delivery of topics.  On a monthly basis a good topic eventually falls from the sky.  Weekly basis...things need to move faster.
Visit:  http://www.tecmobowl-vs-rbi.com/index.html ---strategy, info, and player ratings for Tecmo Bowl & R.B.I. Baseball.

Gantry

#23
07/05/12, 09:42:40 PM
Tag Team wrestling is so fkn bad

TbT

#24
07/05/12, 09:49:29 PM
Quote from: Gantry on 07/05/12, 09:42:40 PM
Tag Team wrestling is so fkn bad

Yeah it was horrible, but really made it fun to rip on it.  That fkn game really set the tone for the show.
Visit:  http://www.tecmobowl-vs-rbi.com/index.html ---strategy, info, and player ratings for Tecmo Bowl & R.B.I. Baseball.

Gantry

#25
07/06/12, 07:40:46 AM
Probably already recorded but MUSCLE wrestling is also awful, completely awful. 

BeefMaster

#26
07/06/12, 10:11:02 AM
Other non-TB/RBI ideas that could make for good podcasts:

- Beat-'em-ups: Double Dragon (actually, you could probably do a whole podcast on that series), River City Ransom (easily the jewel of the genre on the NES), Mighty Final Fight, Battletoads (and their Double Dragon crossover), TMNT 2-3... the genre actually might be too crowded for a half-hour show.

- Mega Man boss power rankings: I always hated fighting Quick Man the most, although I would point out that I've played very little of 1, 4, and 6, so I don't have a great handle on their boss difficulty.  Metal Man was the easiest, especially the second time around when you could one-shot him with his own weapon.

- Black sheep sequels: Castlevania, Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario all had sequels that were very much unlike the rest of their series.  What about those games is better or worse than the rest of the series?  For what it's worth, Zelda 2 was one of our original NES games, so I've always liked it, and I liked the RPG elements of Castlevania 2 as well.

- Late-era NES games: Quality games like Mighty Final Fight, Kirby's Adventure, and Battletoads & Double Dragon are often ignored because they came out after the Super NES had already mostly taken over.  NES games were released as late as 1994, and there were some excellent games in the '92-'94 era that don't get the attention of the earlier games.

- Other baseball games: Easily the best overall sport on the NES - the RBI series, Baseball Stars (note: I never played Baseball Stars 2), Baseball Simulator 1.000, Little League Baseball, and (arguably) Bases Loaded 3 were all excellent games.  Even stuff like Roger Clemens Baseball, Bo Jackson Baseball, the first couple Bases Loaded games, and BaseWars had their moments - Clemens had the ability to avoid tags; Bases Loaded had ejections; Bo Jackson had selectable pitch types; BaseWars had killing your opponents.  Granted, baseball is probably easier to simulate than other team sports, since fewer players move at once, but it's interesting that there were so many more quality options than football (basically just the Tecmo Bowl series, with Touchdown Fever or Elway if you were desperate for something different) or basketball (Tecmo NBA was the only decent 5-on-5 game).  I suppose the fact that baseball is played in Japan while the others aren't was also a big part of this.
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann

TβG

#27
07/10/12, 07:33:05 AM
You can use me for a call-in segment on bad news baseball. It's a very good late NES game with individual player attributes, even an entire secret league of girls.
Quote from: Nacho on 03/15/16, 10:17:08 AMWe've had babe drafts. We've had a sandwich draft. We can have our babes and eat sandwiches, too.

BeefMaster

#28
07/11/12, 10:19:55 AM
Quote from: TβG on 07/10/12, 07:33:05 AM
You can use me for a call-in segment on bad news baseball. It's a very good late NES game with individual player attributes, even an entire secret league of girls.

This could be the setup for a movie on either the Disney Channel or Cinemax.
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann

TβG

#29
07/11/12, 11:26:33 PM
maybe like a D.E.B.S. scenario...
Quote from: Nacho on 03/15/16, 10:17:08 AMWe've had babe drafts. We've had a sandwich draft. We can have our babes and eat sandwiches, too.

Gantry

#30
07/12/12, 11:50:24 AM
:thumbsup:

Turd

#31
07/12/12, 03:41:55 PM
Quote from: TβG on 07/10/12, 07:33:05 AM
You can use me for a call-in segment on bad news baseball. It's a very good late NES game with individual player attributes, even an entire secret league of girls.

It is a good game...I wasn't a fan of some of the graphics though...I think someone had rabbit ears or something...the umps, maybe.  Still, a decent game...

TβG

#32
07/16/12, 11:21:33 PM
umpires are rabbits.  only drawbacks to the game are the cutaways at close plays on the bases and the computer pitchers tip their pitches for direction.
Quote from: Nacho on 03/15/16, 10:17:08 AMWe've had babe drafts. We've had a sandwich draft. We can have our babes and eat sandwiches, too.

Turd

#33
07/17/12, 01:38:55 PM
Every now and then I get pulled into BSTARS for the defensive stuff and the season mode, but I always come back to my 8-bit fatties.

I should have a really nice ROM rated at the end of the 2012 season, complete with a new hitter profile: The Weak Power High Average Hitter.  It'll also have the switch hitter hack.

I'm excited for the season to be over on the level that it puts me out of my Brewers misery and brings me closer to getting a 2012 ROM out the door.  On the other hand, I love even non-Brewer baseball, so it'll be bittersweet.

ShnerdSF

#34
07/25/12, 07:09:30 PM
10 Days til the 6th annual RBI Baseball World Series in South Jersey!!

Gantry

#35
10/21/14, 06:59:07 PM
Might as well unsticky this one as well
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